Transport: Hoover Affair

Slowly making her way through dark,
unfamiliar waters last fortnight, the Dollar Line's crack 21,936-ton
President Hoover ran hard aground on a reef 18 miles off Formosa's east
coast, 450 miles north of Manila. There was a heavy swell on, and by
daylight the 615-ft. vessel was fast on the rocks for more than half
her length. A few hundred yards away the 503 passengers and 330 members
of the crew could see tiny Hoishoto Island, and within a mile or two a
handful of other Japanese islandsall small, bleak, sparsely
inhabited....